Papers by Sebastian Kratzer
Creative entry points in mediation Accessing conflicts. Starting talks. Breaking deadlocks., 2023
Third parties face numerous challenges when launching peace processes or trying to unblock situat... more Third parties face numerous challenges when launching peace processes or trying to unblock situations within a process. Creative entry points are a third party's pragmatic response to that challenge. They are answers to the questions of who to work with and on which themes to engage in order to increase the chances of a functioning process.
The practical guidance in this publication provides peace mediation and dialogue practitioners with ideas, options and strategies for finding creative entry points when launching peace processes or trying to break deadlocks in existing efforts.
Drawing on a wide variety of case studies and experience by seasoned peacemakers, the publication and accompanying three-page toolkit help peace practitioners design innovative and pragmatic responses to enter a context, start a new dialogue or mediation process or unblock a stalled process.
Read the full publication here: https://hdcentre.org/insights/23679-2/
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Violent conflict and efforts to resolve it have evolved rapidly over the past decade. One shift i... more Violent conflict and efforts to resolve it have evolved rapidly over the past decade. One shift is the ways in which peace mediation and dialogue initiatives are funded. This has a major impact on how effective peace processes are, how peace support entities can seize and create opportunities, and how we navigate the winding paths to peace. This report looks at challenges, strategies and solutions amidst these shifting ways in which peace mediation and dialogue initiatives are funded
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ACCORD - Pioneering peace pathways, 2020
This article focuses on the relationships between the core state donors to peacemaking, and inter... more This article focuses on the relationships between the core state donors to peacemaking, and international independent or non-governmental organisations offering third-party mediation or peace process support. This article tracks current trends and analysis funding-related dynamics relevant to peace work: operating realities for donors; the importance of flexible funding for the unpredictable, formative phases
of peace processes; variations in understanding of what peace process and mediation support is; and increasing donor interest in direct involvement in peacemaking. It also makes recommendations aimed at contributing to greater mutual accountability between donors and practitioners, in order to better address the causes and consequences of violent conflict.
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Development Dialogue, 2019
An overview of the current state, trends, challenges, and innovations in the field of armed confl... more An overview of the current state, trends, challenges, and innovations in the field of armed conflict mediation, and its links to dialogue approaches and peacebuilding.
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This article describes the start of a pilot for a multi-sector intervention in Darfur in areas of... more This article describes the start of a pilot for a multi-sector intervention in Darfur in areas of return for displaced people. It was written by the Cluster Coordinators and published on the UNDP, OCHA and Resident Coordinator's homepages and social media.
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Blog from a UN conference on the importance of revisiting the gender dimensions of weather and cl... more Blog from a UN conference on the importance of revisiting the gender dimensions of weather and climate services.
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In the humanitarian space, the agency and discourse of actors on the ground remain largely absent... more In the humanitarian space, the agency and discourse of actors on the ground remain largely absent from mainstream analysis and implementation of humanitarian action. By drawing on a wide range of International Relations theories, geography and critical studies, as well as practitioners' accounts, this book sheds light on the roots, characteristics and consequences of the discrepancy between humanitarian theory, reality and politics that contribute to a distortion of humanitarian assistance. The international system is currently ill-equipped to deal with the violence situated within the humanitarian space, leading to an increased silencing of affected civilians. In this sense, the humanitarian space presents yet another battlefield of the global power struggle between governments, corporations, civil society actors and terrorist groups.
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Papers by Sebastian Kratzer
The practical guidance in this publication provides peace mediation and dialogue practitioners with ideas, options and strategies for finding creative entry points when launching peace processes or trying to break deadlocks in existing efforts.
Drawing on a wide variety of case studies and experience by seasoned peacemakers, the publication and accompanying three-page toolkit help peace practitioners design innovative and pragmatic responses to enter a context, start a new dialogue or mediation process or unblock a stalled process.
Read the full publication here: https://hdcentre.org/insights/23679-2/
of peace processes; variations in understanding of what peace process and mediation support is; and increasing donor interest in direct involvement in peacemaking. It also makes recommendations aimed at contributing to greater mutual accountability between donors and practitioners, in order to better address the causes and consequences of violent conflict.
The practical guidance in this publication provides peace mediation and dialogue practitioners with ideas, options and strategies for finding creative entry points when launching peace processes or trying to break deadlocks in existing efforts.
Drawing on a wide variety of case studies and experience by seasoned peacemakers, the publication and accompanying three-page toolkit help peace practitioners design innovative and pragmatic responses to enter a context, start a new dialogue or mediation process or unblock a stalled process.
Read the full publication here: https://hdcentre.org/insights/23679-2/
of peace processes; variations in understanding of what peace process and mediation support is; and increasing donor interest in direct involvement in peacemaking. It also makes recommendations aimed at contributing to greater mutual accountability between donors and practitioners, in order to better address the causes and consequences of violent conflict.